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Midos
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A Jewish Wedding Deep in fields the klezmers can be heard Driving horses foaming at the mouth, Relatives, both poor and rich, arrive To Reb Sane’s daughter’s wedding feast. [ . . . ] But from a…

Contributor:

Alter-Sholem Kacyzne

Places:

Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1924

Subjects:

Marriage, Children, Pogroms, Christianity, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry
In These Nightmarish Days
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Here you have him, the proud Jew. The Jew who ruled his kingdom with a high hand in complete despotism: here is the Jew who never heeded anyone’s advice, who did everything with his own hand and…

Contributor:

Josef Zelkowicz

Places:

Litzmannstadt, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Jewish quarters, Children, Rebellion, Death, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Lekh-lekho
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And now Blimele, dear child, Stop—stop playing now. No time for that. We can be called at any minute To leave our poor home —A lonely boat on an island of sand— And be hurled into the midst Of a…

Contributor:

Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh

Places:

Lodz, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Lodz, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Holocaust, Children, Jewish quarters, Theology, Death, Poetry

Categories:

Poetry